God and Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human ExperienceOUP Oxford, 2004 M10 15 - 448 pages David Brown argues for the importance of experience of God as mediated through place in all its variety. He explores the various ways in which such experiences once formed an essential element in making religion integral to human life, and argues for their reinstatement at the centre of theological discussions about the existence of God. In effect, the discussion continues the theme of Brown's two much-praised earlier volumes, Tradition and Imagination and Discipleship and Imagination, in its advocacy of the need for Christian theology to take much more seriously its relationship with the various wider cultures in which it has been set. In its challenge to conventional philosophy of religion, the book will be of interest to theologians and philosophers, and also to historians of art and culture generally. |
Contents
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The Place of Encounter | 37 |
The Natural World Medicated Experience and Truth | 84 |
Placement and Pilgrimage Dislocation and Relocation | 153 |
Competing Styles Architectural Aims and Wider Setting | 245 |
The Contemporary Context House and Church as Mediators | 308 |
Widening the Perspective Mosque and Temple Sport and Garden | 350 |
Plates | 405 |
Interim Conclusion | 407 |
The Internet as Visual Resource | 414 |
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